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PDF 67 Feb 20 Mo Press Major Scott-Smith (Giles) US visit: Giles Scott-Smith article on MT's 1967 US tour (20 Feb-31 Mar)
Text 74 Oct 16 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Conservatism: "Tories must look before they leap into line behind a new leader" (Bernard Levin) [Conservative leadership candidates]
Text 75 Apr 9 We Press Major Thatcher memoirs Cold War: Early meeting with Ronald Reagan [memoirs extract]
PDF 80 Feb 22 Fr Press Major Archive (Hayek MSS) Conservatism: Eric Heffer speech ("Tory leaders are no hypocrites, Mr Heffer says") [clash between "wets" and "dries"]
Text 80 May 7 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Steel: "Threatened revolt over steel chief collapses" (meeting between Joseph and Conservative backbench committee regarding Ian MacGregor appointment)
Text 80 Dec 1 Mo Press Key Commentary (The Times) Conservativsm: “Lord Vaizey’s change of party” (announces conversion from Labour to Conservative)
Text 81 Mar 5 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economy: "Communists heckle Mrs Thatcher in church" (St Lawrence Jewry speech) [MT: "you see why I fight these people"]
Text 81 Mar 10 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Budget: "Economists criticize Government" (Hayek & Friedman on BBC Panorama ) [blaming wets]
Text 81 Mar 10 Tu Press Key Thatcher memoirs Economy: The 1981 budget [memoirs extract]
PDF 81 Mar 12 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Budget: "Chancellor Under Savage Attack from All Quarters" [response to Budget] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 13 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Budget: "'Cabinet Men Warn on Budget" (7 rebel ministers) [Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Prior, Walker, Gilmour & Soames]
Text 81 Mar 16 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Budget: "Advice and consent" (Hayek letter) [does not act as an adviser "on particular decisions"]
Text 81 Sep 15 Tu Press Key Commentary (The Times) Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets]
Text 81 Oct 13 Tu Press Minor Commentary (The Times) Conservative Party: "'Blue Chips' to aid party in Croydon" (all 14 to visit) [demonstration of loyalty]
PDF 81 Oct 15 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economy: "Impassioned plea by Heath gets short shrift from Tories" (attacks government at party conference)
PDF 81 Nov 19 Th Press Minor Commentary (The Times) MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment]
Text 81 Nov 28 Sa Press Major Commentary (The Times) SDP: "Heath hints he might join a Tory-SDP coalition" ("There might be invitations ... which might be acceptable")
PDF 81 Dec 3 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Conservative Party: "Heath scorns the 'pretence' of monetarism" (speech) [no intellectual basis]
Text 81 Dec 7 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) SDP-Liberal Alliance: "Steel tells of talks with troubled senior Tories" (dissident Conservatives including junior ministers) [plus Gilmour attack]
PDF 81 Dec 9 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economy: "Howe attacked from all sides" (debate on Autumn Statement) [14 Conservative abstentions]
Text 82 Mar 11 Th Press Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: "Carlton Club celebrates with Thatcher as star" (MT unveils a portrait of herself at the Carlton Club) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Mar 21 Su Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Whitelaw faces sack over crime” [difficult week ahead; MPs believe he will eventually be fired due to row over rising crime rates in Britain]
PDF 82 Mar 24 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Victorious Whitelaw gains his reward” [PM's endorsement of Whitelaw record in face of party criticism]
PDF 82 Mar 28 Su Press Major Commentary (The Sunday Times) “Wily Willie” [critics won over]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Press Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: Reuters reports (1159Z) ("Falklands Mediation") [British officials ruled out US mediation unless Argentine troops withdrew first] [this copy released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 8 Th Press Minor Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: USICA news summary (Haig Mission) ["key to any US role in Falklands"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Press Major Commentary (the Sun) Falklands: "Peace is in the air" ("Argentina will pull out in Haig plan")
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Press Major Archive (Haig MSS) Falklands: "Argentines Taking a Pessimistic View on Falklands Crisis" (transcript of New York Times article based on briefing from Buenos Aires) ["This article read in London on 4/12/82 almost had AMH (Haig) abandon efforts & blame the Argentines for the failure"] [this copy released Mar 1993]
PDF 82 Apr 12 Mo Press Major Commentary (UPI) Falklands: "Haig presses diplomatic shuttle on Falklands crisis" (c1745Z) (account of Haig's day in London; proposals developed in Buenos Aires)
PDF 82 Apr 13 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Falklands: "No Deal!" [talks collapse after 11 hours of talks; "Britain's 'No deal' answer"] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 1 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) “Foot sides with Pym on British commitment” [speech at Cooperative Congress]
PDF 82 Sep 26 Su Press Minor Commentary (The Observer) China: Clive James articles ("Mrs T. in China") [account of MT's visits to China & Hong Kong]
Text 82 Dec 16 Th Press Major Shultz (George) Cold War: The “Special Relationship” (Shultz memoirs)
PDF 83 Apr 4 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Reshuffle: “Shadow of the axe over Whitelaw and Pym” (inspired post-election reshuffle speculation)
PDF 83 Jul 8 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economic policy: "Spending cuts hit NHS and defence" ["package of £500m in expenditure cuts in the current financial year"]
Text 83 Sep 8 Th Press Key Thatcher memoirs Cold War: Chequers Seminar on future of the Soviet Union [memoirs extract]
PDF 83 Sep 12 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economic policy: "Lawson seeks public debate on spending" ["the Treasury must lead a more open debate on the prospects for public spending and taxation"]
Text 83 Sep 29 Th Press Key Thatcher memoirs Cold War: Thatcher-Reagan meeting in Washington (record of conversation) [memoirs extract]
PDF 83 Oct 6 Th Press Key Commentary (The Times) Cecil Parkinson: "'Parkinson admits love affair" (Parkinson admits relationship with Sarah Keays)
PDF 83 Oct 10 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Cecil Parkinson: "Chance of Parkinson survival dwindles" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays)
PDF 83 Oct 11 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson's affair cost him Foreign Secretary's post" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays)
Text 83 Oct 25 Tu Press Major Shultz (George) Cold War: US disappointment at MT’s line over Grenada (Shultz memoirs)
PDF 84 Jan 14 Sa Press Minor Commentary (The Times) Coal: "Scargill in clash on impact of ban" [Scargill and MacGregor disagree on effects of overtime ban]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Press Major Commentary Financial Times) MT: “Thatcher considers MSC chairman for Downing Street role” (David Young) [“suggestion of strengthening the Prime Minister’s office has [been] revived … following criticisms within the Conservative Party”]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Thatcher endorses police conduct in miners’ dispute” [Thatcher praises police]
PDF 84 May 2 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Media: “Sherman view on loyalties” [“better for an adviser to face political death than ‘to be drawn into competition in courtiership and sycophancy’”] [annotated text released 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Scargill dispute halts paper” [editions of Daily Expressed not published due to inter-union dispute]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Press Minor Commentary (The Times) Coal: "Scargill dispute halts paper" [quarrel between journalist unions stops Express going to print]
PDF 84 May 12 Sa Press Major Commentary (The Times) Coal: “Thatcher prepared for long strike” [MT emphasizes to conference long strike plans, rejects 8 week claims]
PDF 84 May 13 Su Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Coal: “Punch up at pit rally” [arrests made at rally]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There are also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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